Indicate how the supply of raw materials affected the nature of British industrialization.
Since 17th century, Britain had been importing bales of cotton cloth from India at exorbitant price. But after the entry of East India Company into India, it began to import along with cloth, raw cotton, which could be spun and woven into cloth in England. Till the early 18th century, the process of spinning had been very slow. The spinners were occupied throughout the day, while weavers waited idly to receive yarn. A lot of technological inventions closed the gap between the speed in spinning raw cotton into yarn, and weaving the yarn into fabric. The production shifted from the homes of spinners and weavers to factories.
What were the relative advantages of canal and railway transportation?
How were the lives of different classes of British women affected by the Industrial Revolution?
Compare the effects of the coming of the railways in different countries of the world.
How did Britain’s involvement in wars from 1793 to 1815 affect British industries?
What were the interesting features of the inventions of this period?
Look at the diagram showing the positive feedback mechanism on page 13. Can you list the inputs that went into tool making? What were the processes that were strengthened by tool making?
Why do we say that it was not natural fertility and high levels of food production that were the causes of early urbanisation?
What were the features of the lives of the Bedouins in the early seventh century?
Why was trade so significant to the Mongols?
Describe two features of early feudal society in France.
Which elements of Greek and Roman culture were revived in the 14th and 15th centuries ?
Compare the civilization of the Aztecs with that of the Mesopotamians.
Comment on any points of difference between the native peoples of South and North America.
What were the major developments before the Meiji restoration that made it possible for Japan to modernise rapidly?
Humans and mammals such as monkeys and apes have certain similarities in behaviour and anatomy. This indicates that humans possibly evolved from apes. List these resemblances in two columns under the headings of (a) behaviour and (b) anatomy. Are there any differences that you think are noteworthy?
Which elements of Greek and Roman culture were revived in the 14th and 15th centuries ?
Comment on any points of difference between the native peoples of South and North America.
Why was the history of the Australian native peoples left out of the history books?
What did the ‘frontier’ mean to the Americans?
Humans and mammals such as monkeys and apes have certain similarities in behaviour and anatomy. This indicates that humans possibly evolved from apes. List these resemblances in two columns under the headings of (a) behaviour and (b) anatomy. Are there any differences that you think are noteworthy?
Compare details of Italian architecture of this period with Islamic architecture.
Describe two features of early feudal society in France.
How did the Qing dynasty try and meet the challenge posed by the Western powers?
Give examples of the cosmopolitan character of the states set up by Arabs, Iranians and Turks.
What were the Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles?